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(Atomic City Underground) ORNL's High Flux Isotope Reactor resumed operations today following a month-long outage for refueling, maintenance and repairs. The research reactor achieved full power (85 megawatts) at around 10:20 a.m., according to Ron Crone, the lab's research reactor chief...1/7 |
(Science Daily) Fortunately, two experimental sites were already in place: the free-air carbon dioxide enrichment experiments at forests in North Carolina and Tennessee, operated by Duke University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, respectively...1/7
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DOE
(PhysOrg.com) A powerful computing tool that allows scientists to extract features and patterns from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed by scientists... 1/8
(ENS) Groundwater on and around the site of the U.S. Energy Department's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is contaminated with volatile organic compounds and chromium... 1/7
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory was named a winner in the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive’s third annual Electronics Reuse and Recycling Campaign at a White House ceremony on December 16...1/7
East Tennessee
(Atomic City Underground) Congressman Lincoln Davis today announced his subcommittee assignments for the House Appropriations Committee, and one is the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development...1/8
(Oak Ridger) The tab for a toxin-laden ash flood at a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee could reach hundreds of millions of dollars, and ratepayers for the nation's largest public utility will probably be stuck with the bill...1/7
(Metro Pulse) ...It’s been on everybody’s minds for weeks now: the Kingston disaster, its environmental consequences, the costs and resources it will take to clean it up...1/6 |
National
Washinigton (Reuters) President-elect Barack Obama will seek on Thursday to rally support for a massive fiscal stimulus package by warning that the United States could remain mired in recession for years without bold action. ...1/8
(NY Times) Israel’s conflict with Hamas in Gaza threatened to broaden on Thursday as at least three rockets were fired into the north of Israel from Lebanon...1/8
State & Regional
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The chairwoman of the Senate committee with TVA oversight hinted Wednesday that, in light of the Dec. 22 fly ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, she might consider pushing the use of federal funds to finance green technology efforts at the agency...1/8
(Knoxville News Sentinel) The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is ready to celebrate.This year marks the 75th anniversary of the park, and with the help of surrounding communities, the list of events commemorating this milestone is long enough to last from now until the end of 2009...1/8 |
